What happened to rule 3?

[suchmoon]

Since trolls don't get banned, and they feed on attention, I just click Ignore. But that's not for everyone: I don't get why people are still posting in self-moderated topics when the warning on top shows all 25 posts have been deleted.

Drive-by sig spammers post without reading the preceding posts or the OP, sure as shit they're not gonna read the line above the OP, nor do they care as long as the post stays up until the campaign manager does weekly counts.

Rule #1 is #1 most abused and #1 least enforced.

[dkbit98]

Since trolls don't get banned, and they feed on attention, I just click Ignore. But that's not for everyone: I don't get why people are still posting in self-moderated topics when the warning on top shows all 25 posts have been deleted.

They probably have nothing better to do in their life, or they are doing it intentionally to prove the point.
I think Ignore button works perfectly in this situation, unless in some weird way someone enjoys wasting time.
Banning trolls don't work most of the time as they just create new accounts.

[ABCbits]

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Banning trolls don't work most of the time as they just create new accounts.

I mostly agree. Although banning troll with fairly high rank account is better than nothing, since they'll be forced to face some limitation with the new account (such as image not shown and no signature).

[KingsDen]

Did this thread inspire this user to create their account?

[baneveryone]

What about this one?

All questions to me. I am Excimer

Which he self-moderately created and in which he deleted all posts except his own.

His abuse of the self-moderated thread is much more severe than what you found. He has also completely altered the topic of the threads and relocated them. I am talking this at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5558525.msg65785649#msg65785649.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

His abuse of the self-moderated thread is much more severe than what you found. He has also completely altered the topic of the threads and relocated them. I am talking this at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5558525.msg65785649#msg65785649.

I will say this again. Completely ignore him. The more members reply to him in his self-moderated threads, the more they give him troll energy. Yesterday I replied to a thread made by someone who was complaining about his personal information getting disclosed, the culprit decided to reply me through his self-moderated thread.

I just ignored it, and I suggest all members do the same.

[Free Market Capitalist]

His abuse of the self-moderated thread is much more severe than what you found. He has also completely altered the topic of the threads and relocated them. I am talking this at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5558525.msg65785649#msg65785649.

I've seen him lately in the Reputation section with several self-moderated threads with his bullshit.

Even with everything you have gathered, moderators in coordination with theymos are encouraged to do something about it. But unfortunately, having a crazy person around who hasn't been taking their medication lately and uses the forum as a hobby is tolerated in quite a few cases.

[Synchronice]

What happened to rule 3?

The first rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight club.
The second rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight club!
The third rule of fight club is, if someone yells stop!, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over.

P.S. I'm kidding.

No one in their right mind doubts that Excimer is a troll.

Well, the name tells itself: a short-lived molecule that exists only in an excited state.

Since trolls don't get banned, and they feed on attention, I just click Ignore. But that's not for everyone: I don't get why people are still posting in self-moderated topics when the warning on top shows all 25 posts have been deleted.

Drive-by sig spammers post without reading the preceding posts or the OP, sure as shit they're not gonna read the line above the OP, nor do they care as long as the post stays up until the campaign manager does weekly counts.

This is so true and the worst thing is that (I can't prove it but I'm 100% sure) these spammers create another account to create dummy threads where it's easy to post an answer and they feed each other this way. For example, they post hundreds of times threads like Gold VS Bitcoin and so on. Such a question has been asked for 100 times, why to ask it for 101 times when it's the same copy/paste and there is nothing new in the main post that will differentiate it from other threads?

Anyone knows when I click on Ignore, how to make that user completely disappear from the forum for me instead of seeing This user is currently ignored. text?

[Bitcoin_Arena]

Anyone knows when I click on Ignore, how to make that user completely disappear from the forum for me instead of seeing This user is currently ignored. text?

Not possible under the current forum settings unless if you persuade the Admin to do something about it (that is, if he can even alter it) or another option is to convince some geek who's good at code to create a script or add-on for that specifically? 
Been seeing a lot of tools getting created lately to ease the forum usage.